POST-OFFICE, UP-HILL.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 57, 5 July 1884, Page 7

POST-OFFICE, UP-HILL.

We have looeived several letters from a paity Hgnmj; liim-iclf "A Minor" and " Pei.sev.mce " rv the discontinuance of" the p >^t-ofllce up-hill. The paity thus complaining states that letters for th<' tiuners uoiling" lip-hdi sue often kept si bout for in. Ny 'iiys before b'iiug delivered, and when Mt list leeoived tljeru is gencrnlly 2d, 4d, 01 6<l, as tlie case may he, to pay on them; a o tli.it tl.e loc ';! p<i|>ers are oft n k> kejit aliouc that two issues a.*e nwnchnic^ deli\oicd loj_etht*i. We repaid t<- ilu- io< a' pnpei, we uo not see Jiow our correspondent can li'amo the {)<M,t! antlioriti^fj for negligent "delivery, as it does not pass through die pofet-cilue at all to Kiil^eribeis n}»-liil!. NVc tliink <'iv coi respondent must ex?m"6'rate poim-u !iat> as we have heard no complaints ?■? de!i\ en <>i' the "' Newd " uphill. At un\rnt(-, a complaint made to U< j sM*h v. ulk iiutl Si titter, the admits at WaioroM- onnii) or at the office, Te Ai'ohn, would io(( he prompt attention. With r<gard to the post-office, if X tters and paper-- are leully kept about a fortnight in tian«it, thei 1 good v.,,UHe for cuni -'ainl. Wh atrrt'O with our cojT"Rpondc;nt a* rvp,n\i\n £op'o p' i ni.imin bt.n,^ <m at> urd reJuuueifitiou to gi^u uns out Lv take charge

of th<> mails. Tt is a maU'T oi r 'grot that the post-office >t QuMrtz\ lile lias been ditfeonJnucd (since June 15th), and every effort should bo made for its r ■ . tablishment on a better basis. It will prove a .yreat inconvenience to the miners to be without a post-office ; on the other hand, we think they ought not to have objected to contribute a trifle em-h towards so d '• sirable an object. They were, we are inLori nod, asked to do so and refused, with li < r Milt Hie |v»st-oli ; i w.i-j di.i-ontinned. Only ..bout £30 w»itil«! be reqn.i\',l to est.iblish a regularly tri- weekly service up-hili. himl ko small a sum ouu'lit not to •nneaniu uruio'iut tble obntach' tor the itt.iin«nent of so d'-Mir.ible an nm\.